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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ncisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
42: ...Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
49: *[[Pêro Vaz de Caminha]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of...
53: *[[Alvaro Caminha]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of...
62: *[[Miguel Corte-Real]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ... female painter to become a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was al...
7: ...orked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and how to paint. Since her father's style...
10: ...shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Caravaggio]] without being ...
12: ...estore her reputation, he later reneged on his promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ... influenced the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th century]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
12: * 43 KYA: [[Mining]]
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]===
21: ===[[8th millennium BC]]===
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Ital...
39: *[[Kazimierz Alchimowicz]] ([[1840]]-[[1916]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]])
53: *[[Jacopo Amigoni]] ([[1685]]-[[1752]])
56: *[[Michael Peter Ancher]] ([[1849]]-[[1927]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
28: *[[Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[Unite...
31: *[[Bi Sheng]] — primitive movable [[printing]] types
35: ...ash;American inventor of the [[Borchardt C-93]] semi automatic pistol
36: ...ć]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
56: *[[William Cullen]] — mechanical / chemical [[refrigeration]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... improving the [[telescope]], a variety of astronomical observations, the first [[Newton's laws of mot...
12: ...ents reported in ''[[Two New Sciences]]'' to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, for ...
18: ...esses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1610]] in a short ...
22: ...[[1620]]. Later astronomers overruled Galileo's naming of these objects, changing his ''Medicean stars...
24: ... around the [[Sun]] would cause its illuminated hemisphere to face the Earth when it was on the opposi... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...an]], [[astronomer]], [[philosopher]], and [[alchemist]] who wrote the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Prin...
6: ...cooling of objects when exposed to air; the [[binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles o...
19: ... engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storey married someone else. It is said he kept...
23: ...ler|Kepler]]. In [[1665]] he discovered the [[binomial theorem]] and began to develop a mathematical t...
25: ...ards, but constantly to the earth's centre." In similar terms, [[Voltaire]] wrote in his ''Essay on Ep... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...day State of [[California]] has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the sign...
5: ...t of interest primarily populated by [[missionary|missionaries]] and fur trappers, to a land of opport...
10: ...ge:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
13: ...ibes were the ''[[Chumash]]'', ''[[Maidu]]'', ''[[Miwok]]'', ''[[Modoc]]'', ''[[Mohave]]'', ''[[Ohlone...
36: ...eptember 28]] at [[San Diego|San Diego Bay]], claiming the [[Island of California]] for Spain. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
2: ...sh language]], as well as one of the world's pre-eminent [[dramatist]]s.
17: ...]]. Some evidence exists that both sides of the family had [[Roman Catholic]] sympathies.
19: As the son of a prominent town official, William Shakespeare probably a...
27: ...ried on [[August 11]], [[1596]]. Because of the similarities of their names, some suspect that his dea...
47: ...money at the time). A bust of him placed by his family on the wall nearest his grave shows him posed a... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
7: ...e name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domeni...
13: ... [[Rome]] for the same reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefl...
25: ...hing position at [[Marburg]], before obtaining permission to teach at [[Wittenberg]], where he taught ...
27: ... strength, and he concluded, erroneously, that it might now be safe to return to Italy.
31: ...uisitor, Cardinal [[Bellarmine|Saint Robert Bellarmine]], who demanded a full recantation, which Bruno... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
1: This is a list of famous chemists:
6: *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877-1950), German chemist
7: *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869-1910), German chemist
8: ...[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
9: ...Johan August Arfwedson]], (1792-1841), Swedish chemist - History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
2: ...y cultures around the world using the raw, astronomical data collected.
8: ...as [[Stonehenge]]) probably fulfilled both astronomical and [[religion|religious]] [[social function|f...
14: ...eir designs are conservatively dated to the first millennium BC, but their contents appear to be much ...
22: ...rahmagupta]] (598-668) was the head of the astronomical observatory at [[Ujjain]] and during his tenur...
24: ...Bhaskara]] (1114-1185) was the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, continuing the mathemat... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
7: ...er on a farm. As a child, Cook moved with his family to [[Great Ayton]].
14: ...nd going beyond the instructions given by the [[Admiralty]].
20: ...complete New Zealand coastline, making only minor mistakes (such as calling [[Banks Peninsula]] an isl...
26: ... into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kangaroo, which was ''gangar...
28: ...] between Australia and [[New Guinea]], again becoming only the second European to do so (the first be... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
20: ...– The [[USS Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[airc...
31: *[[1979]] – [[REXX]] programming language created
32: ...iddles]] becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile [[Iditarod]] [[dog sled]] race.
33: ...[[1986]] – [[Jacques Chirac]] becomes Prime Minister of [[France]]
34: *[[1987]] – The [[Food and Drug Administration]] approves anti-[[AIDS]] drug [[AZT]]. ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
27: ...-Khwarizmi|Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi]] (Persia, [[780]] - [[850]])
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[...
34: *[[Apollonius of Perga]] (Asia Minor, [[265 BC|265 B.C.]] - [[170 BC|170 B.C.]])
41: *[[Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd]] ([[1937]] - )
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]])
30: *[[Viktor Ambartsumian]], ([[Armenia]], [[1912]] – [[1996]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]...
64: *[[Benjamin Banneker]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1731]] &nda...
99: *[[Michael E. Brown|Michael (Mike) E. Brown]] ([[United States|USA]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...umb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National Portrait Gallery]], Londo...
12: ...e]]), and began a lifelong connection with that family.
16: ...1]] when he again found work with the Cavendish family, tutoring the son of his previous pupil. Over t...
20: ...f Men were not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite the separate phen...
30: ...when the Royalist cause began to decline from the middle of 1644 there was an exodus of the king's sup... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
35: *[[Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz]], (1890-1963){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
63: *[[Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri]], (d. 992){{fn|R}}
64: *[[Ammonius Hermiae]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...sia]] to the coast of [[Colombia]]. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the [[Strait of ...
9: ...o]]es and often rocked by [[earthquake]]s. [[Tsunami]]s, caused by underwater earthquakes, have devast...
17: ...1800 miles) across, the rise stands about 3 km (2 miles) above the adjacent ocean floor.
26: ... the equator is less salty than that found in the mid-latitudes because of abundant equatorial precipi...
28: ...misphere]] and anti-clockwise in the [[Southern Hemisphere]]. The [[North Equatorial Current]], driven... - Theories and sociology of the history of science (16096 bytes)
9: ...g process, as well as the internal disciplinary limitations to the scientific publication process.
11: ...ery of a new law of nature was a prequisite for admission. It was soon shut down by [[Pope Paul V]] un...
13: ... interested in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar with and more educated about the subject.
15: ...weapons" as [[radar]], [[rocketry]], and the [[atomic bomb]]. During the [[Cold War]], a large amount ...
17: ... interested in empirical inquiry, and also more familiar with and more educated about the subject.
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